Fedoras afield

[Yamahana]

4” vented Sunbody, the Cadillac for working AZ desert fields. (IMHO)

My partners today, my youngest grandson spending a week with Papa. My Aussies are sporting their summer time haircuts.

Best I could do for a group photo.

 

[dh66]

Took a ride up to Paducah, Kentucky over the weekend....

The confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers.

We saw Laid Back Country Picker play while we were there. Definitely a band worth checking out.

 

[dh66]

While we were there we crossed the river into Illinois and visited Metropolis, Illinois and saw Superman.

I learned that at one time there were twin uranium processing plants in Paducah and Metropolis. Hence the name the Atomic City.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I wanted to escape the heat so I headed east for a Sunday afternoon drive. I hoped to get close to Tioga Pass (9,945 feet), but the road is closed below the 7,000 foot level. I’ve heard the snow pack at the pass is still in excess of ten feet.

And this photo from Yosemite National Park from June 22nd:

 

[StoryPNW]

I wanted to escape the heat so I headed east for a Sunday afternoon drive. I hoped to get close to Tioga Pass (9,945 feet), but the road is closed below the 7,000 foot level. I’ve heard the snow pack at the pass is still in excess of ten feet.

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And this photo from Yosemite National Park from June 22nd:

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My son and I road tripped over Tioga Pass and through Yosemite last fall in the Mustang, what a beautiful place!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

My son and I road tripped over Tioga Pass and through Yosemite last fall in the Mustang, what a beautiful place!

Toga Pass is only 45 miles from my office, but that’s in a straight line and these roads aren’t straight! Crazy to think that the pass might not open until August this year.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Victoria, British Columbia. I’m on my way to Campbell River and my wife is staying at my sister’s vacation house on a small island off of Sydney. Hope to post fish photos later…Campbell River is called the salmon capitol of the world.

The view from my sister’s dining room and the front porch. Having family with money is almost as good as having it yourself…almost.

 

[Mighty44]

Victoria, British Columbia. I’m on my way to Campbell River and my wife is staying at my sister’s vacation house on a small island off of Sydney. Hope to post fish photos later…Campbell River is called the salmon capitol of the world.

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The view from my sister’s dining room and the front porch. Having family with money is almost as good as having it yourself…almost.

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That is pretty spectacular—and the hat looks good, too. Enjoy-hope you catch your dinner!

 

[Woodtroll]

Victoria, British Columbia. I’m on my way to Campbell River and my wife is staying at my sister’s vacation house on a small island off of Sydney. Hope to post fish photos later…Campbell River is called the salmon capitol of the world.

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The view from my sister’s dining room and the front porch. Having family with money is almost as good as having it yourself…almost.

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The Pacific Northwest is a beautiful place! Hope your fishing trip is a great one!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I took my middle daughter and her husband and a nephew who was a last minute replacement for my brother-in-law salmon fishing in British Columbia. We all limited and had a great day on the water.

 

[Woodtroll]

Looks like a good trip, all right. Pretty weather and scenery, and nice fish!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Looks like a good trip, all right. Pretty weather and scenery, and nice fish!

Thanks, Regan. There’s a size slot limit and we caught several that were too big to keep.

 

[The Shoe]

The Kurobe dam was an incredible feat of engineering for postwar Japan. It was built far away from everything. The construction of tunnels, cable cars and ropeways for the transportation of construction materials for the dam was a huge effort in itself. We drove for close to an hour from Toyama city to Tateyama station, took a cable car, a bus, a trolley bus through a narrow tunnel through a mountain, a ropeway, and another cable car.
First, the view from the bus.

The tunnel through the mountain.

Construction was set back by huge amounts of underground water that started pouring in.

The view from the ropeway. The ropeway itself is unique in Japan and rare in the world, as it has no pylons along its entire span.

At 186m, the dam is the highest in Japan. Apparently, the variable radius arch dam is a rare shape for a dam.
Etsuko wore a Toucan Collection hat for the occasion.

I wore my Sunbody Teardrop.

The construction cost 171 lives.

We didn’t come across any of these fellas.

River, while you’re ramblin’ you can do some work for me.

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

The Kurobe dam was an incredible feat of engineering for postwar Japan. It was built far away from everything. The construction of tunnels, cable cars and ropeways for the transportation of construction materials for the dam was a huge effort in itself. We drove for close to an hour from Toyama city to Tateyama station, took a cable car, a bus, a trolley bus through a narrow tunnel through a mountain, a ropeway, and another cable car.
First, the view from the bus.
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The tunnel through the mountain.
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Construction was set back by huge amounts of underground water that started pouring in.
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The view from the ropeway. The ropeway itself is unique in Japan and rare in the world, as it has no pylons along its entire span.
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At 186m, the dam is the highest in Japan. Apparently, the variable radius arch dam is a rare shape for a dam.
Etsuko wore a Toucan Collection hat for the occasion.
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I wore my Sunbody Teardrop.
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The construction cost 171 lives.
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River, while you’re ramblin’ you can do some work for me.

Do you know what kind of bear they have in Japan? Anything unique or just an Asian black variety?

 

[The Shoe]

Do you know what kind of bear they have in Japan? Anything unique or just an Asian black variety?

In the area where I live, and also in Toyama, it’s the Asian Black, known here as tsuki no waguma, literally the moon bear, because of the white crescent moon shape on its chest.
Up north in Hokkaido, there are Ezo higuma, a variety of brown bear, that can grow pretty big and be pretty scary. “By some estimates there are around 3,000 brown bears in Japan, all of them in Hokkaido. This is about four times the number of grizzly bears found in the continental United States.”
I’m just reading that the worst attack was in 1915, when one bear killed some people, the returned the next day during pre-funeral rituals to attack again, resulting in a total of seven dead and three injured.

 

[Who?]

How do Japanese, who have no local population of men with rifles, handle such a situation?

 

[The Shoe]

A little more of the dam…

One of the stops on the way home, Murodō is 2450m above sea level, with a great view of Mt. Tateyama, the mountain which gives this mountain range its name.

Plenty of alpine flowers to be seen.

 

[The Shoe]

How do Japanese, who have no local population of men with rifles, handle such a situation?

For the most part, they do their best to avoid attacks by being sensible, using sprays and attaching bells to their clothes or backpacks. When attacks do happen, people tend to get somewhat mauled and bitten, but usually not killed. Occasionally you hear stories of people fighting them off, like the man in his seventies a couple of years ago, who punched a bear in its face, and only suffered minor injuries.

 

[BobHufford]

For the most part, they do their best to avoid attacks by being sensible, using sprays and attaching bells to their clothes or backpacks.

 

[The Shoe]

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Love it! I have a Canadian friend who posted the same on Facebook a while back.